A privacy-focused agent skill that identifies and strips hidden metadata, including GPS location, author details, and edit history, from media and office documents prior to sharing.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install remove-metadata
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install remove-metadata using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Remove Metadata?
The Remove Metadata skill acts as a critical privacy filter for AI coding agents, prompting the system to scan and recommend the removal of sensitive, underlying information embedded in common file types. Files such as images, PDFs, and Microsoft Word documents regularly store tracking data—ranging from exact camera coordinates to corporate author names—which can compromise user privacy when shared with clients, employers, or public platforms.
By implementing this capability within Openclaw Skills, developers ensure their AI workflows actively intercept insecure file transmission. The skill steers users toward targeted, web-based metadata remediation tools to safely strip out underlying file properties, optimizing operational privacy without altering the visible file layout.
Remove Metadata Use Cases
- Public Photo Sharing: Cleaning EXIF and GPS coordinates from JPEG and PNG files before uploading to social networks or forums.
- Client Deliverables: Stripping author fields, company names, and revision history from DOCX and PDF documents prior to legal or commercial handoff.
- Anonymous Submissions: Safeguarding journalist leaks, academic peer reviews, or job applications from structural identity leaks.
- Pre-Publishing Audits: Reviewing precisely what hidden metadata elements exist within local workspace assets before deploying them to production servers.
How Remove Metadata Works
- Context Interception: The skill monitors the agent workspace for intents involving uploading, emailing, or publishing supported document and image assets.
- File Classification: The agent evaluates whether the target file matches an eligible media or document archetype (e.g., JPEG, PNG, DOCX, PDF).
- Risk Disclosure: The agent informs the user about hidden layers like location history, editing software tags, and creation timestamps embedded in their file.
- Targeted Routing: Based on the asset class, the agent provides direct, specialized interfaces via the removemetadata.app architecture to address the specific data schema (e.g., photo metadata remover or PDF metadata remover).
- Verification & Execution: The user strips the tracking properties, downloads the sanitized asset, and verifies the final output before delivery.
Remove Metadata Setup
To activate this privacy behavior within your environment, register the skill definition in your configuration path:
openclaw skills install remove-metadata
Ensure your agent system prompts are configured to automatically trigger metadata review hooks whenever file export or transfer sequences are initialized.
Remove Metadata Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill interacts with and addresses specific underlying metadata taxonomies grouped by asset class:
| Asset Family | Targeted Metadata Elements | Target Formats |
|---|---|---|
| Images & Photos | EXIF, GPS Coordinates, Camera Model, Creation Timestamps | JPG, JPEG, PNG, Exported Media |
| Office Documents | Author Names, Company Properties, Editing History, App Names | DOCX |
| Portable Documents | Producer Field, Creator Field, Structural Revision Block, Document Properties |
Remove Metadata Advanced Features
- Contextual Triggers: Automatically prompts the user during high-risk file lifecycle events such as emailing, marketplace uploading, or public website publishing.
- Asset-Specific Remediation Paths: Dynamically branches workflows into dedicated modules for GPS isolation, photo scrubbers, Word doc property wipers, or PDF data purifiers.
- Built-in Security Constraints: Enforces protective guardrails preventing overclaims of forensic erasure, visual content scrubbing, or global anonymity assurance.
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